linux-kernel - Re: syscall_get_error() && TS

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Message-ID: <20170329170442.GA24342@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Mar 2017 19:04:42 +0200
From:   Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:     Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@...hat.com>,
        Pedro Alves <palves@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        the arch/x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: syscall_get_error() && TS_ checks

On 03/29, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 29, 2017 at 9:55 AM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Once again, it is only used in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c by do_signal() and
> > handle_signal(). We do not care if mmap() returns a valid pointer with the
> > high bit set, regs-ax can't be confused with -ERESTART code.
>
> Immaterial. If the function is called "get_error()", it sure as hell
> shouldn't return a random non-error value.

Oh, I agree, and let me repeat the 3rd time that I suggest to kill this
helper and use syscall_get_return_value() in arch/x86/kernel/signal.c,
it has no other callers.

Oleg.